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ADVISORY BOARD ON RADIATION AND WORKER HEALTH

1150 Tusculum Ave

Cincinnati, Ohio 45226

(513) 533-6825

CHAIRMAN 

Vacant 

MEMBERS

Henry Anderson, M.D. 

 Madison, Wisconsin 

Josie Beach 

 Richland, Washington 

Bradley P. Clawson 

 Rexburg, Idaho 

R. William Field, Ph.D. 

 Iowa City, Iowa 

David Kotelchuck, Ph.D. 

 New York, New York 

James E. Lockey, M.D. 

 Cincinnati, Ohio 

David B. Richardson, Ph.D. 

 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 

Genevieve S. Roessler, Ph.D. 

 Elysian, Minnesota

Phillip Schofield

 Bosque Farm, New Mexico 

Loretta R. Valerio 

 Santa Fe, New Mexico 

Paul L. Ziemer, Ph.D.

 Lafayette, Indiana

STAFF

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

Theodore M. Katz, MPA 

 Atlanta, Georgia

COMMITTEE MANAGEMENT 

Zaida Burgos

 Atlanta, Georgia

May 16, 2019

The Honorable Alex M. Azar II

Secretary 

Department of Health and Human Services

200 Independence Avenue, S.W.

Washington, D.C. 20201

Dear Mr. Secretary:

The Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (The Board) has 

evaluated SEC Petition 00219 concerning workers at the Idaho National 

Laboratory (INL) in Scoville, Idaho, under the statutory requirements 

established by the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation 

Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA) and incorporated into 42 CFR Sec. 

83.13.

The Board respectfully recommends that SEC status be accorded to:

“All employees of the Department of Energy, its predecessor 

agencies, and their contractors and subcontractors who worked at the 

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in Scoville, Idaho, and who were 

monitored for external radiation at the Idaho Chemical Processing 

Plant (CPP) (e.g., at least one film badge or TLD dosimeter from CPP) 

between January 1, 1963, and February 28, 1970, for a number of 

work days aggregating at least 250 work days, occurring either solely 

under this employment, or in combination with work days within the 

parameters established for one or more other classes of employees in 

the Special Exposure Cohort.”

This recommendation is based on the following factors: 

• Workers at this facility during the time period in question were 

involved in operations related to nuclear weapons production.

• NIOSH’s review of available monitoring data, as well as process 

and source term information for this facility found that NIOSH 

lacked sufficient information to allow it to estimate with sufficient 

accuracy the potential internal doses from exposure to alphaemitting radionuclides, to which employees working at this facility 

may have been subjected. Specifically, NIOSH has not located 

sufficient personnel or area monitoring documentation to support 

reconstruction of internal exposures to uranium, neptunium, 

plutonium, and other related transuranic radionuclides.The Board 

concurs with this determination.

• NIOSH also determined that health may have been endangered for 

these INL employees during the time period in question. The Board 

also concurs with this determination. 
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Based on these considerations and the discussions held at the April 17, 2019, Board meeting 

in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Board recommends that this class be added to the SEC.

Enclosed is the documentation from the Board meeting(s) where this SEC class was 

discussed. The documentation includes copies of the petition, the NIOSH review thereof, and 

related materials. If any of these items are unavailable at this time, they will follow shortly.

Sincerely,

[Signature on File]

Phillip Schofield, Chair, INL Work Group

on behalf of the

Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health

Enclosure